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Operation Dragoon, the Allied landings in the south of France in August 1944, is often seen as a sideshow supporting Operation Overlord, the crucial D-Day landings in Normandy. And often the operation is criticized as an expensive diversion of men and equipment from the struggle against the German a...
Author
Anthony Tucker-Jones
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
224
Publisher
Pen and Sword
ISBN #
184884140X
EAN Code
9781848841406
ISBN #
18
In this companion volume to his photographic history of Soviet tanks and armored vehicles, Anthony Tucker-Jones provides a visual guide to the vast array of aircraft, warships and missiles the Soviet armed forces deployed at the height of the Cold War. Although the superpowers never came to blows, t...
Author
Anthony Tucker-Jones
Binding
Paperback
Pages
160
Publisher
Pen and Sword
ISBN #
1473823617
EAN Code
9781473823617
ISBN #
16
It could be said that the T-34 was the tank that won the Second World War. In total 57,000 were produced between 1941 and 1945. Stalin’s tank factories outstripped Hitler’s by a factor of three to one, and production of the T-34 also exceeded that of the famed American M4 Sherman. Not only did this...
Author
Anthony Tucker-Jones
Binding
Paperback
Pages
160
Publisher
Pen and Sword
ISBN #
1781590958
EAN Code
9781781590959
ISBN #
14
In this companion volume to his photographic history of Soviet tanks and armored vehicles, Anthony Tucker-Jones provides a visual guide to the vast array of aircraft, warships and missiles the Soviet armed forces deployed at the height of the Cold War. Although the superpowers never came to blows, t...
Author
Anthony Tucker-Jones
Binding
Paperback
Pages
160
Publisher
Pen and Sword
ISBN #
1783032960
EAN Code
9781783032969
ISBN #
11
The remarkable photographs collected together for this book show in graphic detail the role armor played in the Allied struggle to exploit the D-Day landings and liberate occupied France - and the skill and tenacity of the German panzer units that confronted them. The struggle gave rise to a sequenc...
Author
Anthony Tucker-Jones
Binding
Paperback
Pages
144
Publisher
Pen and Sword
ISBN #
1848845170
EAN Code
9781848845176
ISBN #
8
The latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Jones’s series of books on armoured warfare in the Images of War series is a graphic account of the development of armoured forces in the Arab and Israeli armies from 1948 to the present day. In a sequence of over 200 archive photographs he tells the story of the ...
Author
Anthony Tucker-Jones
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
160
Publisher
Pen and Sword Military
ISBN #
17
On 30 January 1968 the North Vietnamese communists launched a coordinated surprise attack – the Tet Offensive – across South Vietnam against the South Vietnamese and American armies. Superior firepower eventually crushed the offensive, but it proved to be a major psychological victory for the commun...
Author
Anthony Tucker-Jones
Binding
Paperback
Pages
160
Publisher
Pen and Sword
ISBN #
1783463627
EAN Code
9781783463626
ISBN #
15
After the Second World War, military analysts thought that the only place significant armored forces were ever likely to confront each other again was in central Europe where the Nato alliance would fend off the Soviet Red Army. Then during the Korean War of 1950-53 both sides deployed large numbers...
Author
Anthony Tucker-Jones
Binding
Paperback
Pages
160
Publisher
Pen and Sword
ISBN #
1848845804
EAN Code
9781848845800
ISBN #
13